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D8: The conference bag

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.--While the biggest question on the minds of D8 attendees is what Steve Jobs will say later tonight, perhaps the second biggest question for some was what would be inside this year's goody bag.

The bad news is that this year's bag is less chock full than in past years, which saw goodies ranging from Guitar Hero III to Flip cameras and more. This year's biggest tech item is an Insignia-brand electronic child locator tucked among the usual assortment of books, pens, notepads, and the shirt that, without directly saying so, says "… Read more

Ultimate conference schwag at Office 2.0

At last year's Office 2.0 Conference (which CNET sponsored), attendees were delighted to discover that the price of admission included an iPod Nano, cleverly preloaded with the conference schedule.

This year, organizer Ismael Ghalimi is raising the ante. All conference attendees get iPhones.

The phones will be part of experiment at the conference in Web-based group collaboration (the iPhones being, as we've said before, hardware for Webware), which Ghalimi explains on his site. Also, the logistics of ordering and shipping the phones to attendees is being done with Web 2.0 products and services, a Webware experiment … Read more

What we liked at the Web 2.0 show

Demo fatigue set in early yesterday here at Webware HQ. After watching 13 five-minute demos back-to-back in the Launchpad session at the Web 2.0 Conference (or Summit, depending) with no break except for a brief stretch when one presenter's machine needed to reboot, it became hard to focus. But we've condensed the best and worst of the Launchpad session into a five-minute video. Plus: An exclusive peek inside the Web 2.0 Conference schwag bag!

In addition to our Web 2.0 Conference blog posts, News.com has a full rundown of news from the show, with … Read more